The Shenkman Arts Centre in Orleans has announced a 2017-18 season with a mix of comedy, some rock and roll and a splash of local talent. Kim Mitchell will, no doubt, turn on the Patio Lanterns for his show in November. Add into the musical mix
ARTSFILE is reaching out to artists from Ottawa who are making their way in the world. The results of these inquiries will form an occasional series of interviews. This time Peter Robb talks to the soprano Joyce El-Khoury who is really making her mark on opera
A musical might not be your instinctive choice for bringing to the stage the residential school experience of First Nations people. But it made perfect sense to Corey Payette, the playwright, composer, lyricist and director of Children of God, which opens at the National Arts Centre
The Cathedral Arts Series at Christ Church Cathedral wound down its season Saturday night with an evening of famous opera arias and duets. Soprano Katherine Whyte and tenor Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure were given carte blanche to program whatever they liked. The resulting menu skewed heavily and
Has something been lost in translation? Touted as a hilarious comedy about the off-stage shenanigans of musicians, classical and otherwise, Maestro by Québec playwright Claude Montminy opened Friday at the Gladstone in its English-language premiere. The play is running in both official languages and opened in
Sometimes, classical concerts unfold in a protective cocoon of perfect calm and order. Wednesday evening’s NACO performance was not one of those times. Game 7 of the Sens vs the Penguins — which the NAC thoughtfully had up on a big screen in the lobby —
Canadians often take their freedoms for granted. So it is a useful reminder of how much this nation has to talk to someone for whom personal freedom means so much. Dang Thai Son is such a person. He is also one the best pianists you may not know.
The push is on to get a major chunk of the $110 million upgrade of the National Arts Centre ready for a ribbon cutting on Canada Day. And inside the construction zone workers are laying fine ledge stone, a hard, dark marble from the Owen Sound
It’s not the smallest, nor the biggest, nor the oldest artifact in the new showcase hall at the Museum of History, but it is, perhaps, the most evocative, for it is the oldest depiction of a human face yet found in the land that would
With more than 1,500 artifacts on display, the Canadian History Hall is expected to be the "largest and most comprehensive exhibition on Canadian history ever developed," says the museum that hosts this massive sesquicentennial project. Museum of History officials offered a glimpse of the Hall Wednesday morning.
